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== Feature Ownership & Status ==
=== Ownership ===
Dev Lead: Marco Bonardo

QA Lead: [mailto:andrei.vaida@softvision.ro Andrei Vaida], :avaida on IRC

Release target: Firefox 36

=== Status ===
<small>'''<font color="green">[LANDED]</font>'''</small> Nightly 34: first landed on

<small>'''<font color="red">[DISABLED]</font>'''</small> Aurora 34: release target moved to Firefox 35

<small>'''<font color="red">[DISABLED]</font>'''</small> Aurora 35: release target moved to Firefox 36

{{ok|}} Aurora 43: signed-off

{{ok|}} Beta 43: signed-off

{{ok|}} RC 43: landed

== Summary ==
===Context===  
The awesomebar in Firefox Desktop has been so far driven by two autocomplete searches implemented by the Places component:
* history: managing switch-to-tab, adaptive and browsing history, bookmarks, keywords and tags
* urlinline: managing autoFill results
Some of the possible improvements suggested for the awesomebar's content include:
* Better identify searches among the results
* Allow the user to easily find favorite search engine
* Always show the action performed by Enter/Go
* Separate searches from history
* Improve the styling to make each part more distinguishable
The decision to merge the existing components into a single new component called UnifiedComplete (toolkit/components/places/UnifiedComplete.js) was made because of the various architecture complications that would result from actually applying these improvements to the awesomebar.

Here are a few of the improvements currently available in Nightly 34's awesomebar:
* The autoFill result will now always cope with the first popup entry. Though note the behavior didn't change, we will still autoFill up to the first '/'. * This means a new popup entry is inserted as the top match.
* All initialization is now asynchronous, so the UI should not lag anymore at the first awesomebar search
* The searches are serialized differently, responsiveness timing may differ, usually improve
* Installed search engines will be suggested along with other matches to improve their discoverability

{{note|See Marco Bonardo's blog post on Unified Autocomplete '''[http://blog.bonardo.net/2014/07/24/unified-complete-coming-to-firefox-34 here]'''.}}

===Enabling the component===
The UnifiedComplete component can be enabled by setting the following boolean pref to <code>true</code>:
:<code>browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete</code><br/>

'''Note:''' this pref is <code>true</code> by default starting with Firefox 43.

== References ==
* Meta: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995091 Bug 995091]
* Marco Bonardo's '''[http://blog.bonardo.net/2014/07/24/unified-complete-coming-to-firefox-34 blog post]''' on Unified Autocomplete.

== Test Cases ==
** Test suite is available in the form of a '''[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tTjC9koUlTczDZBDoQwbfPOIPxJfx3dGjY_DjvdXRg4/edit#gid=1763812046&vpid=A4 google spreadsheet]'''.

== Bug Work ==
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====== All Dependencies ======
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====== Verified Fixed bugs ======
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====== Upcoming bug fixes ======
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== Sign off ==
===Criteria===
*All the test cases were executed.
*All the blocker, critical, major bugs have been fixed.
===Results===
'''Aurora Sign-off''' 
* <small>'''<font color="red">[DISABLED]</font>'''</small> Firefox 34 ''(2014-09-04)'' - UI implementation is incomplete.
* <small>'''<font color="red">[DISABLED]</font>'''</small> Firefox 35 ''(2014-10-21)'' - Feature is incomplete.
* {{done|}} Aurora 43 ''(2015-09-25)''.

[[File:Beta.png]] '''Beta Sign-off''' 
* {{done|}} Beta 43 ''(2015-10-30)''.

[[File:Release.png]] '''Release Sign-off''' 
* {{done|}} RC 43.0 ''(2015-12-04)''.